Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786
(2000)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2000). Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786. In C. Daniels, & M. V. Kennedy (Eds.), Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (237-253). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203949054-21
One and a half months after arriving in Jamaica, John Thistlewood, a young Englishman residing with his uncle, Thomas, an overseer on a Westmoreland sugar plantation, had a nasty shock. On April 15,1764, John " Hard a great Noise�? and went to invest... Read More about Theater of terror : Domestic violence in Thomas Thistlewood’s Jamaica, 1750-1786.